1 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China 2 Ceramic Department, Shanghai Fiber Reinforced Plastics Research Institute Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201404, China
Nanosized carbon black and micron carbon powder were used as the carbon sources to synthesize AlON powders by carbothermal reduction method and prepare transparent AlON ceramics by the synthesized AlON powders through pressureless sintering. Effects of the carbon sources on the synthesis of the AlON powder and the fabrication of the transparent ceramics were investigated by XRD, SEM, particle size analyzer and spectrometer. The results show that the size and the morphology of the carbon sources are closely related with the calcining synthetic temperature, the morphology and the particle size of the obtained AlON powder greatly. The addition of the nanosized carbon black decreases the calcination temperature to 1730℃ at which the single phase AlON powders are synthesized. High purity AlON powders prepared by the micron carbon powders calcined at 1750℃ for 2 hours are used to fabricate the highly transparent AlON ceramics. The in-line optical transmittance at 1000-5000nm wavelength of the AlON ceramic sample (1mm-thick) is almost 80%, with the max transmittance of 83.7% at 3.93μm wavelength. The average grain size of the obtained AlON transparent ceramics is in range of 110-120μm.
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